Thursday, December 6, 2007

BUYING Time

BUYING Time

Before I left Los Angeles the forever-wise collective circle of Darrin Slowstock, Monkey Boy and Jonas Sansone sat me down and said, “Pete, when you move to Florida make something happen. We know you, don’t revert back move forward. Do something good.”

I know some of you think I am hard on myself, but you know what? I am. I am simply because I know the potential of what more I can do. Unless you have lived with me then you know that I spend more time dwelling on my life than I do actually making my life better. When I fall into something that’s not what I should be doing I Buy Time. Now after the last year I know I have been buying time and now that I’m “broke” its time to invest once again.

Now my much loved and invested readers, you believe my writings are quite good which makes me blush like warm fuzzies invading my body. Although, I know I am not a great screenwriter or writer per say. I know you’re thinking that I am being hard on myself by saying that but please take my word for it. I read scripts, I know this industry inside and out, and I pushed my scripts onto people in the industry and know what a “talented” writer is and what the industry is looking for. That’s not to say I’m going to stop, because I also know that creating stories and making them is one way to get into the business.

The point is I really need to stop buying time and start investing time. I have to be much harder on myself to a point where I am actually getting work done. I have to push to make my stuff happen as well as perhaps searching out for new hungry people to help make my stuff happen. I have to push away my drama, other people’s drama and stop focusing on the things that keep me going around in that same circle. I guess and I have to admit this, I need to be more self indulgent, judgmental and pretentious. Does that mean I need more confidence? Yes. I am very good at what I do I just need to have all the resources to make things happen.

My networking has its moments of brilliance, but my confidence gets the best of me. My emptiness has always betrayed me. I have spent my entire life thinking nothing of motion pictures and I have to do this.

I spent the weekend in Jacksonville trying to escape the mess in Orlando. Seriously, my life in Orlando right now is in shambles. I went to see a friend where I thought she and I would have some alone time, but to my bittersweet dismay, her boyfriend was there. Don’t get me wrong the guy is awesome. It was nice to talk intelligently with someone who knows movies. Yet, once again I felt like a third wheel. Every one of my friends are all involved with someone. It’s like I have to hire an escort just to hang out with them. I’m really happy for them but sometimes it just reminds me that I don’t have that partner, that loving embrace in my life. I really need to push that feeling out and except that I don’t have it and move on.

So now what? Well I have to stop going where the day takes me and start living like tomorrow is my last. Right now, I don’t’ know what’s going to happen. I’m just in a Applebee’s in Jacksonville, Florida having mini burgers and waiting to get tired enough to fall sleep and start my day of inspiring young minds.

And that my friendly readers is that.

Movie Review:

“No Country for Old Men”
Welcome to the first official entry for Best Picture. If you won’t take my word for it, the National Board of Review named it Best Picture today. I have to say this is an instant classic. The Cohen Brothers who made movies like Raising Arizona and Fargo have made a movie as superior as Fargo was. This movie is dry, violent and dark. Actually it’s the darkest Cohen Brother’s movie I have seen of their 12 films. Don’t think you’ll be walking out of the theater feeling gitty. At least at the end of Fargo you could breath. In this movie you end up holding your breath the entire film and you won’t be able to breathe until you are safely home.

Now some people from reading blogs on this movie hate the ending. Now I’m not going to give anything away other than that these people are idiots. Now I respect people’s opinions especially with movies, but it infuriates me when you watch some of the best story telling played out in a movie theater all year and these uneducated people are dumbfounded. What they don’t know is that the book written by Cormac McCarthy ends the exact same way. Pick up a book people!!!! I’m sorry; I’m tired of ignorant uneducated people who write stupid blogs like they know what they are talking about. Kinda like this…but I know what I’m talking about …haha.

Look for the always-great Javier Bardem as Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay from the Cohen Brothers. Javier Bardem gives creepiest villain I have seen since Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs. The biggest surprise was Josh Brolin. I have to say he is awesome in this film and you know he hasn’t been getting to much press for it so I really hope he doesn’t get overlooked during awards time. Go see it, but don’t knock the ending.

National Board of Review Awards
0. Best Film:
0. No Country for Old Men
0. Best Foreign Language film:
0. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film), France
0. Best Actor:
0. George Clooney - Michael Clayton
0. Best Actress:
00. Julie Christie - Away from Her
0. Best Supporting Actor:
00. Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
0. Best Supporting Actress:
. Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
0. Best Acting by an Ensemble:
0. No Country for Old Men
0. Breakthrough Male Performances:
0. Emile Hirsch - Into the Wild
0. Breakthrough Female Performances:
0. Ellen Page - Juno
0. Best Director:
0. Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
0. Best Directorial Debut:
0. Ben Affleck - Gone Baby Gone
0. Best Animated Feature:
0. Ratatouille
0. Best Documentary Feature:
0. Body of War
0. Best Screenplay - Adapted:
0. No Country for Old Men - Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
0. Best Screenplay - Original (tie):
0. Juno - Diablo Cody
0. Lars and the Real Girl - Nancy Oliver
0. Freedom of Expression Award (tie):
0. The Great Debaters
0. Persepolis
0. Career Achievement Award:
0. Michael Douglas
0. William K. Everson Award for Film History:
0. Robert Osborne
0. Career Award for Cinematography
0. Roger Deakins

***** and yes, my favorite movie of the year “ONCE” made it into the top of their lists this year. There is justice.

Top Movies of the Year according to the National Board of Review
BEST PICTURE
No Country for Old Men,*
Atonement,
Michael Clayton,
Juno,
American Gangster,
Sweeney Todd,
Into the Wild,
The Kite Runner,
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,
3:10 to Yuma,
There Will Be Blood,
Zodiac,
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead,
Gone Baby Gone,
Once

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